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World's Biggest Snake Ate New Prehistoric Croc Species
A new, unusually small species of ancient croc found in Colombia was likely no match for the largest snake ever to slither across the Earth, a new study says.
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True-Color Dinosaur Revealed: First Full-Body Rendering
For the first time, scientists have decoded the full-body color patterns of a dinosaur, a new study says—apparently one-upping last week's announcement of a partial recreation.
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True-Color Dinosaur Pictures: First Full-Body Rendering
See the woodpecker-like dinosaur that's made history as the first to be fully and scientifically colored—and the feathery fossil that spawned the new view.
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Lost Roman Codex Fragments Found in Book Binding
Scraps of paper recovered from a set of 16th-century books are from a compilation of 3rd-century Roman laws thought to have been lost to history, scientists say.
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Birds Got Too Fat to Fly After Dinosaurs Vanished?
The ancestors of ostriches and other flightless birds once flew, a new study says. They apparently grounded themselves in earnest, though, after dinosaurs were wiped out.
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New "Destroyer" Dinosaur Found, Was T. Rex Relative
The 29-foot-long predator reigned over the U.S. West about 75 million years ago, rare dinosaur fossils from New Mexico reveal.
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Pictures: Evolution of Dinosaur Art
See how science has changed the art of dinosaur illustration—from the addition of feathers to, as of today, the discovery of dinosaur pigment.
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Dinosaur True Colors Revealed for First Time
Pigments have been found in fossil dinosaurs for the first time—taking "dinosaur color out of the realm of art and into the realm of science."
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Pictures: Dinosaur True Colors Revealed by Feather Find
See the first ever scientifically colored dinosaur illustration—and get the facts on the feather-pigment discovery that made it possible.
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Photos: Queen's Cat Goddess Temple Found in Egypt
An ancient temple filled with about 600 cat statues was built for the goddess Bastet by Queen Berenike II, say archaeologists who found the ruins under modern-day Alexandria.
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Dinosaur "Death Pits" Created by Giant's Footprints?
Chinese pits filled with an astounding array of small dinosaur fossils may have been created by a 20-ton behemoth wandering a volcanic landscape, a new study suggests.
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Pictures: Dinosaur "Death Pits" May Be Fossil Footprints
Following in a giant dinosaur's footsteps could be fatal—but not for the reasons you might suspect. A new study suggests that death traps filled with rare raptor fossils may have been created when a behemoth strolled across ashy mud.
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Viking Shipwrecks Face Ruin as Odd "Worms" Invade
Viking ships, sunken prehistoric settlements, and tens of thousands of other well-preserved wrecks face ruin as wood-eating shipworms invade a warming Baltic Sea.
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Superlungs Gave Dinosaurs Competitive Edge
Dinosaurs ruled the earth for millennia because they were better breathers than mammals, a new study suggests.
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Cleopatra's Eye Makeup Warded Off Infections?
Thick coats of dark eye makeup partially made from lead may have boosted the immune systems of ancient Egyptians, a new study says.
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True-Color Dinosaur Pictures: First Full-Body Rendering
See the woodpecker-like dinosaur that's made history as the first to be fully and scientifically colored—and the feathery fossil that spawned the new view.
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"Super Earth" May Really Be New Planet Type: Super-Io
A planet touted as the most Earthlike outside our solar system might be molten on one side with raging volcanoes on the other, say scientists who think the rocky world CoRoT-7b is closer kin to Jupiter's moon Io.
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